Language: Chinese and English bilingual
ISBN/ISSN: 7806912088
Published on: 2006-01
Hardcover
“China’s Earthen Buildings” originated in the ancient Central China, and varied when the hakka people migrated to different areas. This is a normal phenomenon in the cultural communication as the anthropologists claimed, “the variation of a culture is an adaptability to changes”. It is for this adaptability to the natural conditions and social development that the hakka people built dwellings of different styles in different palaces.
The centrality, the symmetry and the basic feature of “lower in the front and higher in the back compound” as put up in these hakka houses, as wel as its characteristic of dwelling according to their consanguinity is but an epitome of the Chinese Confucianism and Taoism. Either the earthen buildings in Fujian, or the enclosed fortresses in Jiangxi, or the Encircled (emperor’s armchair ) houses in Guangdong, they share the same cultural value.Thouth different in Style, the Father Wen’s Temple in Guangdong’s Meixian County, the Zhengcheng Castle in Fujian’s Yongding County and the Sallow wing’s Enclosed fortresses in Jiangxi’s Longnan County gave visitors the same impression---they are pride of the hakka culture, the are extremely China’s south mountain village construct building.
Hakka Earthen Buildings in Fujian
Enclosed Fortresses in Jiangxi Province
Encircled ( Emperor’s Armchair ) Houses in Guangdong
Building inside and outside, the Hakka Customs and Traditions
